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I have a book by Heidegger from when quantum physics was new and threatening, and it dispels a lot of the SPOOPY myths about it
"quantum" just means that its dealing with the theoretically smallest units of energy and matter, and a lot of the thought experiements arent as flowery as they seem. like cat one, shroedinger's cat -- the point isn't that looking at the cat somehow instantly makes it alive or dead, the point is that the math works out such that you can't accurately predict whether the cat is dead or not based on a time function and have to go actually look manually.
same for MUH QUANTUM SUPERPOSITION, the point of it is that to measure a small particle, you have to do something to it, thereby changing its state or trajectory. by measuring it, you fuck up the system, and necessarily lose data in that way. heideiggers own example is taking calipers to an object; to squeeze the calipers enough to contact the object, you do harm to the object by squeezing it, and have slightly modified the object. on the scale of normal calipers and normal materials, it doesnt matter, but when dealing with individual particles, it's like measuring the speed of baseballs by throwing other baseballs at them in flight. in fact, thats more or less literally how particle physics measuring instruments work, you measure lasers with other lasers and see how the lasers fuck up given one laser is known and the other is mysterious to you (until you fucked it up and recorded the fuck-up)
